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Summary: crossroads of twilight
Review: i was very disappointed with this book. After barely being able to put the earlier books down, this one made me go to sleep. All setup for the next volume, it seams to have been written just to make money. What I mean is that this books only purpose was to make all the fans purchase this book, make Jordan money and make fans wait for years until the book gets back to a decent story line. It seams like an army has been sitting next to the White Tower for 2 years now. All setup.
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Summary: Absolute Garbage!
Review: The books in this series just keep getting worse and worse. Almost 700 pages of absolute [poop]! It was over 500 pages before the main character (Rand al Thor) was mentioned. And then only a handful of pages. I wish I could give this book a lower rating. Do NOT waste your money. NOTHING happened in this book.....just pages and pages of One Aes Sedai trying to stare down another Aes Sedai or wise one. There were no battles, no magic, nothing at all to keep my interest. You could easily skip this book and read the next one without losing out on anything. Robert Jordan started this series with a bang with Eye of the World, but has steadly gotten more and more long winded. Now he is just a [money cow] for Tor Books looking to cash in by stringing his readers along as long as possible. I truly hope the final book in this series has already been written and is just shelved somewhere, because there is very little chance of seeing an end to it until Robert Jordan dies or retires. I want my money back!
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Summary: Did anything happen at all in this book?
Review: After reading this the first time I forgot if anything really happened. So I decided to read it a second time and sure enough, nothing happened. Some people say this is a set up for big things to come. If you cant remember anything that happened then whats the point of having a setup. Also, I have no idea who anybody is anymore. Beonin, Zerowin, Meaolin, Mao Tse Dung, theyre all the same. Stick to the main characters Rob and wake up, this is getting boring.
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Summary: C'mon, Robert! Stop this mindless wandering!
Review: The readers of this series were introduced to an incredibly complex world; inhabited by characters of equal complexity. It seems with this book, Jordan has become enamored with complexity rather than substance. Action within each book, early in the series, was supported by ornate descriptions of a people, their land, and their culture.
The last two books, and perhaps more so this one, have dealt with description only...with this book we are introduced to so many characters that it becomes difficult to remember the former ones, let alone the newly introduced! Jordan writes of their everyday woes as if we are tuning into "As the World Turns," and will do so tomorrow and tomorrow, ad infinitum. Action, as we believe it to be within this series, is almost, if not completely absent. The book ends with the promise of action, a tease of what "may" come with the next book.
There are reader's who will continue buying the series and, I'm sure, there are readers who have decided there are far better ways to entertain themselves than reading this facsimile of a Russian novel...I'm not sure where I stand.
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Summary: Haven't even read the jacket
Review: I haven't even purchased this book nor even read the jacket. When the series started I was obsessed with it, I was also 14 years old and fantasy books were my thing then. Well 12 years later, a couple of college degrees, and many changing tastes in literature I am still stuck because I want to see if that light at the end of this tunnel is actually there. Robert Jordan has fallen victim to the meglomaniac idea that whatever he writes must be good and everybody will love it. Well, honestly we have to decide enough is enough and get him to finish this series in a timely manner. Unfortunately I will probably be suckered into this book as well, my curiosity will get the best of me but I am surely going to wait until it comes out on paperback, or maybe I can borrow it from someone. It would probably be a good airplane book because you really can't do anything else on an airplane but read bad books. But in the meantime there is just too much useful literature I will dedicate myself to.
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Summary: Soap Opera Digest
Review: The first four books in this series rival the best fantasy work ever written. Glimpses of past brilliance in imagination combined with tight writing have come sporadically, at best, ever since, keeping the faithful (yours truly) lined up for the hard copies rather than the paperbacks or worse yet - the used copy bargain bins. This last effort has reduced this series to soap opera level work with zero plot advancement,zero sub-plot climax, and so much flashback / rehash and repetitive descriptive fluff (one more "if a stone could be said to be cold. In Winter. In a Cave. Somewhere above the Arctic Circle. In mid-February." and I think I'll shoot myself" I believe the whole book advanced the storyline by less than two weeks from the close of "Winter's Heart." Please, I implore you Mr. Jordan, STOP listening to your publicist / financial advisor and return to your earlier form and pace - even if it is at the sacrifice of an extra five or six volumes. You have placed what could have been one of the greatest series of all time in almost unrecoverable jeopardy. Classics like Lord of the Rings will always come back and forever be revered (and continue earning at a serious pace.) What you have done, or have been coached to have done, is potentially lose that possibility forever for short-term gain. I have purchased the last eight books of your series in hardcover, but I will not purchase the next addition, even when it comes out in paperback. You have placed this loyal fan (and I would imagine many others) squarely in the bargain bin line-up next to the Harlequin Romance readers. Please bring me back to the pre-order through Amazon.com days. Until then, Robert Visser
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Summary: crossroads of twilight
Review: This is one of the best installment in robert jordans series. The prot becomes intricate and more interesting as the series draws closer towards tai'mon Gaidon in which rand al'thor has to fight the dark one in order to save the world. Any who think this a slow book must be pretty boring people who are very hard to please!
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Summary: Boring, tedious, repetitive, and more boring
Review: A rich tapestry is not enough, and Robert Jordan has been laying it on thick now for 3 books. Randland has been an ingenious invention but I simply think Mr. Jordan has gotten carried away with himself. The world and concepts of history, race, factions, magic, evil, and chance have been awesome, but he is abyssimal at developing characters in a meaningful way without being tedious, repetitive and boring. I will just give one example, Mr. Jordan seems to think that discussing the subterfuge of the various Aes Sedai factions with everyone trying to guess everyone else's motive ad nauseum is interesting. It got uninteresting a long time ago, and I don't think this book enriched that part of the story at all despite how many pages were dedicated to it. It was roughly page 540 before Rand appears in the book, and I don't care how rich the weave is, I want the main protagonist to be featured as moving the story along. I also can't figure out why he couldn't bang out this book in a year. Nothing happened. And if this is an improved re-write of earlier drafts I shudder to think how bad the previous were. I obviously will keep reading Book 11 to see what happens next but I guarantee I will never re-read Book 10. I can put the richest caviar spread on a piece of toast to enjoy, but if I forget the toast then there is nothing of substance for the caviar to sit on so I can get into my mouth. Mr. Jordan, the Crossroads of Twilight is missing the toast!
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Summary: I've had enough.
Review: 680 pages of filler. Nothing new happens, could have skipped this book entirely. Am donating all 10 books to the library, so others don't have to waste years and money, for nothing.
Will not buy or read another of his.
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Summary: I am going to save all of you the trouble
Review: You can read the rest of the reviews about how bad this book is, and they are all correct. This book is horrible, even though I am a huge supporter of Jordan and his writing, I think this book is such a poor reflection of his writing that he should be embarrassed to put his name on this cover. But enough of that. If you don't want to know what happens in the book: please don't read any further. I am going to do what everyone else who wrote a review should have done and saved me my time and money in reading this book. I am going to summarize what happens in the 700 pages of this book, so that you the reader can go directly to book 11 when it comes out (hoping that there is action in that one). Here goes: Mat doesn't do anything. The dice roll in his head a few times, he swears a few times, and he gets to know Tuon (daughter of the nine moons) a bit better. Egwene doesn't do much. She gets impatient with being called the Amyrlin, tries to unite the white tower, and gets kidnapped in the last 20 pages of the book. Rand doesn't do much. He hears lews therin talk a bunch, his side hurts still, and he the book ends with him trying to form an aliance with the seanchean. Perrin smells how people are feeling, gets pissy that he can't get to his wife, and in the end decides to strike a truce with the seanchean to defeat the shaido. Faile doesn't do anything important. Elayne doesn't do anything important. And that is all there is to that. Sorry to ruin it if you read, but I did warn you. So stay tuned, hopefully the next book will be incredible and make up for the last 2 poor excuses of books from this once incredible author.
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